All the world's a stage

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,

Act II Scene VII
As You Like It – William Shakespeare

So? So we are all characters in this world, envisaging complex choices everyday of our lives, and the choices that we make or prefer, designs our life-changing chaotic situations.
Each of our lives can be sketched from birth through childhood and into our adult lives, enveloped by struggles to lead a better life, have a career, a family, a house, a car, fabricating a financial safety net and building up relationship - all intersecting with one another at one point of time or the other.

We start our lives with high expectations (high living and high thinking!), and in Shakespeare’s own word, I quote -

“….That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything….”

Unwittingly and naively, our base becomes a life of consumption, excretion, copulation and hibernation – while all other activities are but measly excuses and supplementary to existence.